VP of Engineering

With over $3 billion in bookings of experiences, the Peek.com platform combines powerful business software with an award-winning marketplace for consumers to book fun things to do like wine tours, watersports, skydiving, art classes, and more. 

The Peek Pro software suite provides world-class online booking, point-of-sale, and hundreds of automation tools such as inventory management, dynamic pricing, waivers, and marketing analytics. Thousands of operators like the Museum of Ice Cream, Artechouse, and Jam NOLA have grown their businesses and automated their operations with our technology.

Peek follows a “remote-first” philosophy, with our team of over 250 Peeksters distributed across exciting locales such as San Francisco, New York, Austin, Nashville, Salt Lake City, Santiago, Medellin, and beyond.  Having secured funding exceeding $100 million from esteemed backers like Westcap and Goldman Sachs, we continue our mission to connect the world through experiences.

PS: In 2021, Peek was not only recognized with a coveted position on Forbes America's Best Startups Employer list but also celebrated an honor from Newsweek with their Future of Travel award 🚀. And the accolades don't stop there! We're ecstatic to announce our #14 ranking on the a16z Marketplace 100 for 2023! 🎉

The Role

We are looking for a VP of Engineering reporting into the CTO to lead our engineering department and help us build great products. You’ll also manage our infrastructure and ensure all internal systems operate securely and effectively. 

To be successful in this role, you should be confident in managing development, QA, and DevOps teams, running agile development processes, as well as planning and executing strategic engineering roadmaps. We expect you to be in charge of our integrations with external partners and teams. You will oversee all software development from ideation to delivery.

Ultimately, as Peek grows, you’ll make sure we continue to run and scale an efficient and innovative engineering team while maintaining high levels of quality for our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with the CPO and CTO on project prioritization and execution

• Oversee all development, QA, and DevOps teams and their projects

• Manage processes to optimize execution and team happiness

• Drive scaling of the engineering team, including integrating new teams

• Develop strategies for key engineering initiatives

• Manage projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines

• Manage department budgets and hiring strategies

• Build out career pathing for the Engineering org

Requirements:

• 15+ years of experience in software development

• 10+ years of management experience and established leadership skills

• Managed multiple teams of at least 30 engineers total

• Experience leading and mentoring senior managers and directors

• Experience managing remote teams

• Detail oriented, able to dive deep into technical areas and assume leadership if necessary

• Extensive experience with SaaS technologies and software development

• Experience working with QA and DevOps teams

• Good understanding of agile best practices

• Excellent project and time management skills

Bonus Points:

• Startup and B2B SaaS experience

• Experience managing remote teams

• Experience leading a global team

• A mix of experience working at startups and larger organizations

Perks & Benefits

Peek invests in our employee’s health and well-being. We’ve built our benefits package around our Peekster’s needs including full health care, dental, and vision plans, paid parental leave, company recharge at the end of the year, and competitive compensation packages that include significant equity upside that allows you to share in Peek’s long-term success.

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Peek Travel Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you are unable to apply because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talent@peek.com.  We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.